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06-30-2007, 03:09 PM
|  | ......................... | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: London, UK
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| | | The Demise of FOPP.
Fucking GUTTED.
They are officially bankrupt, and all stores are now closed.
My friends ex worked at the Tottenham Court Road branch, and they're not even getting paid. I think they're gonna go in and just take a bunch of shit tonight. BBC NEWS | Business | Fopp closes down its 105 stores
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06-30-2007, 03:22 PM
|  | bedroom revolutionary | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: under neon loneliness
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| | Noooooooo  I used to buy fucking bagfulls of books in there for so cheap!
*sniff*
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06-30-2007, 03:24 PM
|  | M. Kahn is bent | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: SYMM
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| | | I passed the one here with the shutters down today, it made me so sad. I thought Fopp would outlive all the high street dinosaurs, it always seemed buisy.
The empolyees aren't getting their last month's paycheques either. In effect they've worked for a month for free. That's terrible. |
06-30-2007, 03:46 PM
|  | canny gee! | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: good crack
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| | NOOOO!
no way!
omg. i actually. omg |
06-30-2007, 05:19 PM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | thats well shitty
i love getting my 4 quid novels from there..
and all the old discounted cds that i never bought the first time round! |
06-30-2007, 05:26 PM
|  | sign yr reps i'm poor. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Leeds, UK
Posts: 548
| | | I only just discovered the one in Sheffield, there was a similar thing in Leeds called Music Zone that got shut down too. I'm pretty much back onto Amazon then I guess.
x |
06-30-2007, 05:30 PM
| | bedroom revolutionary | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: under neon loneliness
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by dee_bourgeois I only just discovered the one in Sheffield, there was a similar thing in Leeds called Music Zone that got shut down too. I'm pretty much back onto Amazon then I guess.
x | Play.com is my god.
Also, I'm pretty sure Music Zone got bought out by Fopp?
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06-30-2007, 05:42 PM
| | M. Kahn is bent | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: SYMM
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| | ^^^ it was the one Sheffield I was on about earlier. There's basically one good indie left around here now (Jack's) that even vaguely caters to my taste. Quote:
Originally Posted by Amity Also, I'm pretty sure Music Zone got bought out by Fopp? | Yep, according to the news it's a big factor in them running out of cash. I can't believe they kept employees coming in when they must have known they couldn't pay them, what scum. |
06-30-2007, 06:54 PM
|  | gotoffwivkeily | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the harbour
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| | I'm really sad about this. They always had really cool books in there.
I was in there last week and they were only accepting cash. |
06-30-2007, 07:05 PM
|  | fired... rehired | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: ½ asleep in frog pyjamas
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by walterboy I'm really sad about this. They always had really cool books in there.
I was in there last week and they were only accepting cash. | gutted indeed. such great books for cheap and reasonably priced music and movies.
no wonder though - so cheap they couldn't have been making much profit.
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06-30-2007, 07:05 PM
|  | Guera | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Surrey, UK
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I met Ross Noble in the Tottenham Court Road Fopp and it was one of the happiest days of my life |
06-30-2007, 07:10 PM
| | gotoffwivkeily | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the harbour
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| | Whatare they going to do with all the stock?
What happens in these sort of situations??
I saw Eddie Argos in Fopp a few weeks ago  |
06-30-2007, 09:03 PM
|  | moz angeles | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: nyc
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| | Ack someone told me yesterday and I seriously felt like my heart broke a little. I'd go into Fopp to buy a cd to cheer me up a few times a week.
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06-30-2007, 10:06 PM
|  | GnFnR | | Join Date: Apr 2006
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| | | i can't belive it, everytime i went in the place was full, and i'm sure i'm not the only person who'd go in for one CD and come out with 9 or 10 just because they were so cheap |
07-01-2007, 05:54 AM
|  | murder boy | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: the business end
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| | | I'm gutted too. It offered something unique as a record shop, it was always the place I went when I wasn't sure what I wanted. I discovered so many great bands through just taking a chance after seeing someone I'd only vaguely heard of on the £5 shelves. And all the books and DVDs too, it was probably the best place in Glasgow for independant film DVDs.
it really sucks. One had just opened 2 weeks ago down from my work too. that lasted all of 2 weeks, now we're back to being a town without a record store.
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07-01-2007, 06:00 AM
|  | Rhapsody | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: 100 Club
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| | | Oh. I bought all my CD's from FOPP when I lived in Edinburgh. This makes me die instead a little bit. |
07-01-2007, 06:42 AM
|  | NOT PENNYS BOAT | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: manchester
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| | | a fopp was due to open in my town soon! rubbish!
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07-01-2007, 06:45 AM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: UK
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| | | Yeah, I noticed the two we have here are gone, well all boarded up. I fucking love(ed) that shop. |
07-01-2007, 06:45 AM
|  | Mrs Sexy Pants | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Aberdeen (Scotland)
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by walterboy Whatare they going to do with all the stock?
What happens in these sort of situations??
I saw Eddie Argos in Fopp a few weeks ago | They sell it all off to another supplier none of us good ppl will see any of it  |
07-01-2007, 12:03 PM
|  | bluebirds | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: at the tragedy sale
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| | Shit! I love(d) Fopp...now there's only one good record shop left in Nottingham, Select A Disc, and I'll mostly be back to that, and Amazon and ebay. I'm going to miss it. For a high street shop it was pretty good with more independent stuff.
Straight after Music Zone went bankrupt too - there will be no cheap high street music shops left soon. I didn't realise Fopp bought Music Zone. My home town now only has HMV and supermarkets to buy CDs in since Music Zone closed, pretty bad. | |
